Mike Elliott
software engineering × consciousness studies
I've built software and led engineering organizations for 15+ years, and lately I study psychedelics and consciousness. This site collects my writing and projects, from Nginx configs to critiques of the mindfulness industry.
I take on a few consulting engagements a year, through my studio elliodelics or directly as elliotec.
Email me at [email protected] if you're building something.
What I do
- elliodelics, software engineering studio2026–nowsoftware for the psychedelic industry, with folks like Josie Kins, Psymposia, and Psychedelia-Stiftung
- elliotec, engineering consulting2013–nowindependent consulting across many industries, where elliodelics came from, and this site
- Mindscape Collective, founder & executive director2024–nowthe largest database of its kind: tens of thousands of peer-reviewed articles on psychedelics and consciousness exploration
- MA in Psychedelics & Consciousness Studies, University of OttawaJul 2026focus on psychedelic critical theory, with ayahuasca fieldwork in Sasaima, Colombia
The longer version is on the about page. The full story takes a campfire.
Posts & projects
- Wrong Mindfulness: The Noble Eightfold Path as a Critique of Its Own Extractionessay
- Psychedelic Integration as Systemic Spiritual Bypassingessay
- Introducing my "now page"notes
- Can't end 2020 without a single blog post!notes
- Greenery - A Bash script to get all the green squares on Githubproject
- Building a non-boring 404 page with CSS animationscode
- How to Find and Replace Project-wide in Vimcode